Friction transmission-gear for autovehicles.



J. W. TABOR.

FRICTION TRANSMISSION GEAR FOR AUTOVEHICLES.

APPHCATION FILED FEB. 24.1915.

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FRICTION TRANSMISSION-GEAR FOR AUTOVEEIOLES,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Felon ti,

Application filed February 24, 1915. Serial No. 10,255.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JACOB W. Tnnon, a citizen of the United States, residing near Eddy, in the county of Grant and State oi ()klahoma, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Friction TTMlSmlS sionlfiears for.Autovehiclesg and i. do hereby declareithefollowing to he a full, clear, and-exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it app ertains to make'and use the same.

This invention relates to friction trans mission gears, and one of the principal. objects of the invention is to provide a. triotion gear in which the speed may be easily regulated, and in which the transmission may be reversed.

The foregoing and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in. which- Figure 1 is a top lan view of a friction gear made in accor anee with this invention,

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section of the friction disk fixed to the drive shaft and the roller bearings for the same, and

Fig, 3 is a perspective view of one of the compound. levers to he operated by a foot lever for relieving the friction disk on the drive shaft, so that one of the disks may he shifted for regulating speed and for reversing.

Referring: to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the side bars of the Prairie of an auto vehicle, and 2 are the transverse lmrs connected to he side bars 1 and extending from the ha 7 are the inner frame hers The drive shaft l is suitably journalcd in the bars 2 and provided with :lace plates 5 preferably provided with roller hearings. hlonnted rigidly on the drive shaft 4: is a "Friction disk 6 connected to the drive shaft t by means of a hindinn screw 7 The drive sha it is pretcrahly made of two sections, and. the secti n i is mounted in a roller hearing rap so med lay hells 9 to the Friction disk (1 and provided with rollers ill.

Mounted to slide on the dri e shaft l is a friction disk 11, provided with a grooved collar 12 toloe engaged by a lever 13 shown broken away, said lever adapted to st 'i'tthe friction 11 along the shaft 45 to regulate ed and also to reverse.

Friction disks 14 are each mounted on a separate shaft 15, said shafts being 5011i.- naled in the bars 3 by suitable lace plates and roller bearings, as indicated at 1(3. The shafts 15 are each. provided with a lie-(wring lilock 17, and a spiral spring 18 encircles each shaft 16 and hears at one ernl against the block 17, while their opposite ei'ids hear against a collar 19 on each of the shafts if, said collars 19 being secured rigidly to the shafts.

Grooved collars 20 are connected one to each of the trietion gears 14-, and a compound lever is connected to each of the grooved collars for moving said lat: orally away from the friction gears and 11, so that the gear ll. may be shifted or slid upon the shaft elf to the point d 1: ed.

A forked lever, one for each friction disk 14 is connected to the grooyed collar 20, the two members saddling the grooved portion of the collar 20, and said. levers 21 are each connected to a bell crank l :28 *oiiy oted at 24 to the bars A. linlr. F25 pivoted at 26 to the hell crank lever 52-3 one end while the other end is provided with a ring or hearing 27 pivotally connected to the crank portion 28 of a shaft 2?) mounted in bearings 30 on the bars At one end of the shaft 29 is foot pedal 31 which may he operated by the driver to throw the trio-- tion disks 141 out of contact with i 6 and 11 when it desired. to shn. 11 along the shaft i to regulate t hy moving out toward the periph disks 1"; or by sliding" the disk ill to the opposite side ol the shafts iii to reverse. Alter the disk ll has been shittcd. to the position desired. the Foot removed from the pedal 31 and tlie sprii'igs 18 throw the disk 14- into Contact with the disks *3 and ll as will he understood.

From the foregoing: it will he ohyious that a friction geaing made in accordance with this invention is exceedingly simple in construction, can he regulated to trans mit any speed desired within its iiin' ind. can he readily reversed by placing" the .i'oot upon. the pedal l3 and nd insting the dish 11 to the position rcipiii'cd. it will he understood. that the disk (2 is on Various changes in the c. struction may be resorted to wi ing from the spirit and scope ot the in; n1- tion as defined in. the clain'i.

W hat is claimed isz ln oomhination, an automohile frame inlOO , in said cap and in the other transverse bar,

a driven friction disk slidably secured to the driven shaft, means for sliding the driven disk toward and from the drive disk, hearings secured to the frame, transverse shafts journaled in the bearings and in the frame bars, friction disks secured to the transverse shafts, coiled springs mounted on the transverse shafts for normally holding the last mentioned disks into engagement with the periphery of the driven and drive disks, grooved collars secured to the transverse shafts, forked levers connected to the collars, bell crank levers pivoted to the inner frame bars and connected to the forked levers and an operating rod connecting the bell crank levers for moving the transverse shaft longitudinally to disengage the disks thereon from the periphery of the driven and drive disks so that the driven disk may be moved on the driven shaft to change the speed thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oftwo Witnesses.

. JACOB W. TABOR.

Witnesses G. W. CARD, SAM RIonN'oUR. 

